Re: [ot] <rant>grub is great!</rant> (was Re: woody Debian Installer plans)
One thing grub appears to be unable to do as well is compensate for a
broken BIOS.. But except for fixing the BIOS, what can? I have a
SCSI-based DEC server with an 8GB limited SCSI BIOS, and I didn't know it
until I attempted to upgrade the hard drive.
grub was able to show me what the problem was (BIOS 'geomerty' was
completely screwed up) but was unable to boot to the drive even from
floppy. :/
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Sami Haahtinen wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 11:18:51PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 07:56:33PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > > but it's so much nicer (in fact) that I no longer install lilo on any
> > > system where I can replace it with Grub. Maybe lilo should be kept around
> > > for weird hardware that Grub doesn't support (is there any such hardware?),
> > > but Grub is really very superior in terms of interface and capabilities --
> > > especially
> > >
> > grub is g-r-e-a-t, even if i could not figure out how to use the password
> > command. it doesn't make sense to me. what if i want to protect my linux
> > from other users? have i to write a new some_config.lst in order to ask a
> > password before starting loading linux kernel? hmmm... i hope the will
> > actively work on it.
> >
>
> This is just a good example how an active developement can cause surprises to
> the better.. when i first installed grub, i couldn't find a password command
> (actually i was wondering about it just the other day..) and now i see there is
> one.
>
> > > system, you can use the Grub command line to fix your problem. Being able
> > > to type:
> > >
> > > root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16 boot
> > >
> > > and boot with your former kernel saves a LOT of fooling around with
> > > special bootdisks.
> > >
> > oh, yes. i love that just-in-time recover that saves you lots of reboots,
> > looking for the bootdisk somewhere-that-you-will-never-find and
> > doing-on-the-fly new boot disks on *damaged* media that won't never boot your
> > machine again.
>
> i solved this one by just making a bootdisk with grub on it.. i use it to fix Windows, Linux the few hurd boxes i have installed... (do that with a normal bootdisk.. =)
>
> > > And did I mention that it's really nice? :)
> > no, you didn't :)
>
> i think we made our point here.. YES it is great.
>
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